Marta Kostyuk and Claire Liu will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 1:30 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marta Kostyuk who should win in 2 sets.
Marta Kostyuk -> 1.44
Claire Liu -> 2.79
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Prediction and head to head Marta Kostyuk vs. Claire Liu
This will be the 3rd time that Marta Kostyuk and Claire Liu square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Kostyuk and Liu (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Kostyuk won 7-5 6-4 in the qualifications in Doha back in 2022.
Marta Kostyuk
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-12 | 15-6 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-22 | 22-16 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-20 | 18-11 | 3-4 | 4-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-17 | 8-9 | 10-4 | 3-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 27-12 | 16-6 | 7-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 40, Marta will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in Madrid where she lost 3-6 6-4 6-3 to Camila Osorio Serrano in the 2nd round on the 27th of April.
Kostyuk has a compiled 17-10 win-loss record in 2023, 1-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Austin where she beat Varvara Gracheva in the final 6-3 7-5.
Talking about her overall career, The Ukrainian has an overall 175-96 record. She has a positive 63-30 record on clay.
Previously in Rome
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021 and 2022. See her history.
Claire Liu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-12 | 8-7 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-29 | 19-19 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-22 | 15-14 | 12-4 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-17 | 17-11 | 17-4 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-10 | 8-8 | 4-1 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 56, the American got to the 2nd round after defeating Camilla Rosatello 6-79 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round against Rosatello, Claire recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-79 6-2 6-2). During the match Liu scored 102 points vs Rosatello’s 86. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 49 winners.
About the serving games, Liu scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 5 double faults. Claire Liu lost the serve twice and she saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Liu put 68% of her first serves in, winning 69% (49/71) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (15/34) on the 2nd serve. Claire broke Rosatello 6 times after converting 86% of her break points (6/7).
The American has a compiled 10-13 win-loss record in 2023, 1-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Rome
- Magda LinetteLinette – Linda NoskovaNoskova (7-64 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Xiyu WangWang – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Sloane StephensStephens (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cori GauffGauff – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-2 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anna BondarBondar – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Madison KeysKeys – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomislav BrkicBrkic – Paul WoernerWoerner (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jacopo StefaniniStefanini – Kirill KivattsevKivattsev (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Riccardo BalzeraniBalzerani – Andres Gabriel CiurlettiGabriel Ciurletti (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Wilson LeiteLeite (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico MaccariMaccari – Marco BortolottiBortolotti (7-62 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adelchi VirgiliVirgili – Omar GiacaloneGiacalone (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tobias SimonSimon – Luca GiacominiGiacomini (6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Qinwen ZhengQinwen – Alize CornetAlize (6-3 7-6(2)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Claire LiuLiu – Marta KostyukKostyuk (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Danka KovinicKovinic (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Julia GrabherGrabher (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lisa PigatoPigato – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Ana BogdanBogdan (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – Petra MarticMartic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Anna BondarBondar – Qinwen ZhengZheng (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Xiyu WangWang – Taylor TownsendTownsend (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Madison KeysKeys (4-1) – H2H and prediction